DRIVERS OF INNOVATIVE DEVELOPMENT OF REGIONS: THE CLUSTER APPROACH

The global changes in area of information innovations and technologies which happened in the world brought modern economy into the status digital. The new economy is already characterized by digital inequality which will increase more and more. Questions of a trajectory of innovative development during an era of economy of knowledge and digitalization become relevant and their value increases. In this article authors tried to answer a question what drivers of growth are necessary for regions for their inclusion in the growing innovative trend of job specialization and whether cluster approach is capable to solve the designated problems. Authors tried to find the response to the revealed restrictions connected with network infrastructure of clusters. On the example of the Kaliningrad region the directions of the solution of the designated problems are shown. For more complete analysis features of pilot innovative clusters, leading clusters and industrial clusters were studied. The industry structure of gross value added of the Kaliningrad region is analyzed and the most reasonable direction connected with the organization of scientific and innovative activities in the Kaliningrad region is shown. In Russia the main forces of workers in an industry of science and education generally rely on personal, pointed interactions that limits a circle of scientific knowledge. Personal interactions are the narrowest link which limits innovative nature of development and leads to restriction of network infrastructure (further in the text "ecosystem"). (c) 2019 Published by Future Academy www.FutureAcademy.org.UK